Silva-Flynn, Zentgraf-Harris added to February's MFC 36 main card

A pair of middleweight bouts has been added to Maximum Fighting Championship’s February return to action.

Jay Silva (8-6) will meet Jacen Flynn (10-3), and Jason Zentgraf (6-1) takes on Luke Harris (9-2). Both fights are ticketed for the main card at MFC 36.

MFC 36 will take place Feb. 15 at Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, will get a main-card live broadcast on AXS TV (10 p.m. ET).

Silva, a UFC and Bellator veteran, makes his MFC debut on the strength of three wins in his past five outings, though he’ll be looking for a return to the win column against Flynn. In May, he dropped a majority decision to Michael Materla in a middleweight title fight for the KSW promotion in Poland. It was his second recent title fight setback after a unanimous decision loss to current “TUF 16″ fighter Bristol Marunde for the Superior Cage Combat 185-pound belt in November 2011. In between, he submitted UFC vet Kendall Grove at SCC 4 this past February.

Flynn was a “TUF 11″ hopeful, but lost in the preliminary round and didn’t make it into the house. In his most recent outing, he was stopped by Elvis Mutapcic at MFC 34 in August, which snapped a four-fight win streak for the Idaho native. Flynn has been fighting professionally since for more than 13 years, but his resume has a pair of large gaps between fights. After a 2007 loss to Ed Herman, he took more than three years off. And he took another four years away from competition between 2007 and 2011.

Zentgraf comes in on a three-fight win streak, including a quick submission of Cody Krahn at MFC 34. All six of his victories have come by submission, with five ending in the first round. His lone loss, to four-fight UFC vet Mario Miranda, was by unanimous decision.

Harris is coming off his first loss since his pro debut. He was stopped with a first-round TKO by Joseph Henle at MFC 34, which snapped a 10-fight unbeaten streak. In a fitting style matchup, just like Zentgraf, all of Harris’ wins have come by submission – and all of them inside the first round. Before his August loss, he was 3-0 in 2012, including a tapout of Edwin Dewees at MFC 33 in May.

“The MFC really started to produce exceptional talent in the middleweight division in 2012, and these two fights – part of our first show in 2013 – are a direct result of that talent influx,” MFC President Mark Pavelich stated. “There was a huge level of excitement around the MMA world when we signed Jay Silva, and immediately Jacen Flynn jumped at the opportunity because he wants to prove he’s much better than when we saw last time out. As for Jason Zentgraf, he wanted to step up in competition and he matches up very well with Luke Harris. And Luke is very eager to start a new winning streak. Both these guys want to be front and center in the title picture, so it is a fitting matchup – and I believe it will be a very exciting one as well.”

In addition to those two main-card bouts, a middleweight fight between Paul Grandbois (5-4) and Krahn (11-6), a pair of rival Edmonton fighters, has been booked for the preliminary card at MFC 34.

Tickets for MFC 36: Reality Check are on sale now and available by calling (780) 504-2024.

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